Originally Posted by killer189
Would I care if the addon was helping people enchance thier gaming exp?
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Your self-supplied answer to that question was no, and since that's the case, you've missed the whole point of authors making their add-ons available in the first place.
Originally Posted by killer189
To be quite honest I could care less who manages the addons...whether it be curse, WM, or WI. I just can't stand the holier then though art bullcrap thats spewing about.
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If you don't care who hosts the add-on, then stop griping about what you perceive to be market-domination, and praise the add-on marketing gods for not cutting you off from their add-ons.
Originally Posted by silentdabeast
What REALLY got me and turned me off of this program was the huge freaking flash add on the bottom right of the screen! This is unnecessary!
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Things that are free to you cost someone money. If you don't like how they raise that money, find something better. If you don't have any other options and lack the whit or will to supply yourself with other options, suck it up and deal.
Originally Posted by silentdabeast
Keep in mind, there are a handful of people - wowui supporters - who will praise and worship your creations no matter what horse crap you produce. Shoot, you could make a program that is loaded with viruses and spam, and they'd still say "this is the best - this is awesome..." because they are that dull in the head!
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I take extreme exception to that, sir, and I will not have you saying I am dull by sheer virtue of the fact that I am capable of being content with the options others are making available to me because I'm too lazy to do it myself. Quality takes time. Take an attitude of gratitude for what's been made available to you, and not one of entitlement.
Originally Posted by silentdabeast
I'm not happy.
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We'd noticed. I'm sorry no one informed you that life isn't a bed of roses before you hit adulthood (LoL?), but here's your sign. I'm sure you'll get over your emotions eventually. /soothe
Originally Posted by silentdabeast
I will NOT let you make money off of me.
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Incidentally, by coming here to QQ about how unhappy you are, you're raising money for the site by seeing all their banner ads. If I were WoWI, my response to you would be, "Thank you for your support, even if you don't find our Minion to your liking."
Originally Posted by silentdabeast
Everyone feels they're entitled to something. The Authors feel they're "entitled" to have their names on a free-to-public addon. The sites that distribute the addons believe their "entitled" to make a profit from them. The consumers feel "entitled" to get the addon in a way that makes them happy...
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Pot, meet Kettle. You're no exception to this. What you're battling is exactly your own sense of entitlement. Since you know you aren't going to be perfectly happy, simply take what you can get and move on. Do what you have to do to keep your add-ons up-to-date or uninstall them. If you really think that no one is going to listen to your rants/suggestions, why waste your time here?
Originally Posted by silentdabeast
I could build a nice "author-friendly" website for them to host their addons and do all and more than WoWi and Curse do...
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Then please do. If you could do it better and treat the user better, do it. If it doesn't matter enough for you to do it, then don't spend your time here bagging on the site. You aren't accomplishing anything, and you certainly haven't earned yourself with any cred from teh intarwebz by boasting about what you haven't done.
Originally Posted by silentdabeast
If you ask me they're all a bunch of spoiled brats who think they somehow deserve our respect, our love, and our support. They don't 'deserve' anything from us!
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And you don't deserve anything from them. Now that we have that square, are you ready to call it even?
Originally Posted by Tekkub
No one has sent me anything warm and fuzzy to feel up, what are you talking about?
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If I could send you the desired warm, fuzzy bit without any detriment to my own health and satisfaction, I'd have sent it to you by now, studly. /grin
Originally Posted by Scalebane
Can i laugh at silent and the other fail guy? i mean like laugh till i fall over crying and my stomach hurting?
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I'm not a site-mod or anything so I can't give you permission, but you certainly have my support to that end! I'll join you and raise you a nannar!
EDIT: As per Voodoodad's reply to me, I have removed my response to Tristinian. Thank you, Trist (or whoever moved the threaded bits), for keeping on-topic bits on topic then. /hug